we're closely watching a very active storm system bringing dangerous weather throughout the season. some areas are being flooded, you're looking at the scene near demaskus. warnings remain in effect for several counties. let's go to bob turk, he's tracking the storms. >> luckily we've had no reports of funnel clouds reaching the ground. in other words we've had no reports of tornadoes. we've had one report of a tornadoes one in demaskus and one in virginia. right across the baltimore region we have a sell across the baltimore city. pretty much covering the beltway north and west of downtown and over northwest part of the baltimore. southeast it's pretty quiet. there are other areas that are pretty heavy. pg county area that tornado warning also in effect for the next 15 minutes for the area

east of college park and crofton area. that's another very, very strong cell. other activity around the fredrick area very well. they've already had flooding reported out there. this particularly a batch of storms creating heavy rain as well. no warning expect for the flooding that's going on in that region. but it's moving up to fredrick, northern sections of fredrick county will be affected over the next 20 to 40 minutes. southeast of baltimore, lighter rain. really not much is another cell just popped up around the aberdine and grays area. pretty light heading toward cecil county. looks like the thought not a severe system. the one in the city now does have a potential to create very, very strong gusty winds, damaging wind and hail. so we'll be watching that. that warning just cancelled but it's still an effective storm. they're capable of creating damage as we continue to track

it to the north. i know with the east moving through north sections of the city. the áf -- over on northern park. you're going to run into that cell, you're going to see very, very heavy rain. to about townsend nothing with the affected by that particular cell. tonight there's another risk or squall line moving through the area. still has to move through the region. this is all ahead of that cold front and unfortunately we may see more severe weather. our first warning weather continues with megan mccorkel. she has been driving for the last hour to find damage and driving, what can you tell us about the conditions there. >> reporter: it's very been slow going. we are head into the town of

leesburg. we've been trying to get there. we were on 140 west. we've been on that road for a while and it is bumper to bumper trying to get into leesburg. we had heard reports of multiple trees down. we heard about flooding in that area. we actually got off of 140 and we're trying to get into town another way. because everything is stopped. bumper to bumper there. we heard that there is flooding on 140 and 97. and that's probably the reason why the traffic is so backed up at this point. we are noticing ponding on the road, it isn't raining right now. we're trying to work our way toward where viewers have reported there was damage to us. the áf we're seeing water on the road. one thing that shows you a storm has gone through a lot of neighbors are outside. seems like notes about the storm. we heard that the skies were just black when it came through. the winds were incredibly intense. we're pulling up to a stop

right now. some of the stoplights here are actually out. police are on the road and directing area because a lot of these lights in busy stops are out. schools kept students in class for an few extra hours. they kept them in interior hall ways to protect them from the storms as the tornado warning went through. it was about 4:30 that carroll county. we will continue to monitor the situation. >> and the storms have passed through there? >> i heard there were extra warnings and people saying storms are coming through and right now it is very bright where we are. you can't even see any black skies. too far away, we've been monitoring the situation around us. almost looks like the sun is trying to peak at this time.

>> for a while any way, thank you megan mccorkel in leesburg, driving any way. let's go to christie bresland who's tracking traffic. >> a lot of activity out there. let's take a live look right now at the situation on northbound 95, chopper 13 out over that situation. there was a vehicle that caught fire and did spin out of control. delays now are just solid. the flames are definitely flairing there. delays are solid out to white marsh boulevard. it's also very heavy in that southbound direction. if you are traveling in that area expect delays well back to mountain road. we will continue to keep you up to date on that. plenty of traffic right there. as it's going to be at least 45 minutes to go through. as far as the rest of the region goes. if you are traveling 17 westbound and megan has said, bumper to bumper in that

region. a lot of congestion on the beltway as well. it wasn't just in the region. on the insider side of the look, another the áf back up around the bell air road. and 51 minutes on the outer look over to baltimore national pike. so we will continue to keep you up to date, especially the crash on 95. back over to you. >> first warning weather coverage continues. vic is in the newsroom with incredible weather pictures from around the area. >> before we get to those pictures, we want to point out. we're setting right under a major storm cell right now. rain is pouring down like crazy. these are pictures outside of our studio. trees are blowing back and forth. at times looks like the water and rain is coming down at an angle. it's pretty nasty. right here on television hill, you can only imagine what it was like for the people around the areas who have been talking about us and calling us and

giving us more information. we're getting tons of pictures from carrol county tonight. showing extremely dark clouds as powerful storms move through. strong winds also knocking over a basketball hoop in one viewers driveway in mount erie as well. another sent us this frightening cloud formation. just outside washington, d.c. where they are actually seeing strong storms off and on. of course we will continue to monitor your weather pictures from around maryland tonight. we will bring those to you as we get them. denise back to you. >> okay, vic thank you,. >> thank you, vick. now gigi barnett. we have gigi on the phone right now in cockysville, tell us what you're seeing right now. >> reporter: we're at an exxon station right at the corner. i've been talking to drivers but let me explain what i'm seeing personally. to the north of us looks like

the skies are some what clearing. but if you turn and look south, it's black. you can see the weather pattern pretty much moveing in that direction. we were talking to some drivers earlier they told me everything from contemplating going out into this weather because they didn't know if they would make it home safely. all the way to people saying, weather is weather, i have to get home. on our way here we were due north on i83, the travel was going pretty well but we could still see many drivers being cautious, taking their time in getting where they had to go. it looks like right now a typical storm in this area. but what we've been hearing is the rumbling of thunder. we're seeing some lightning strikes. and that's why we're not going live because if we did that at

this point would put it in danger. i've been talking to some drivers that they say they haven't checked on the weather they just got off work. it looks pretty active out here. rain is some what light. as i mentioned we're still seeing and hearing the thunder and just trying to steer clear and staying out of this. at this point. back to you on tv hill. >> thank you gigi barnett reporting live from the storm. gigi said that it looked active out there where she's at. it looks active here. >> that's right, right here on tv hill, that's northern sections of baltimore city. winds are gusting up to 30, 35 miles per hour. you can clearly see that warning the tornado warning for the city and baltimore county and howard county has been allowed to be expired which is good news. but we still have at least for the next five minutes the cell that's moving to the dc area

and western portions of pg county. officially they had another tornado warning until 5:15. there's a whole bunch of stuff over on college park to buoy. through southeast dc. that's going to head right toward the airport. around the city now that's the cell that's over us right now. it's moving pretty much up to the north and northeast and currently moving through the city. there it is. northwest baltimore. right toward the east sections, the beltway. jacksonville, cocky sville area. this one over the city pretty much over the top of city hill. eventually going to get out to you folks in eastern baltimore county and bell air area. the rest of the area pouring pretty heavy stuff. particularly around the fredricks area and portions of washington county. once again we keep tracking the radar for you.

don't forget our website is always constantly on, denise. >> all right, thank you bob. stay with wjz to find forecast updates, live doppler radar, log on to wjz.com any time, all evening, our coverage will continue. we'll be right back. i should be arrested for crimes against potted plant-kind.

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it is 78 degrees and i don't need to tell you we have severe weather. it is storming parts of baltimore. police shoot a burglary suspect in cells point. now suspect is in critical condition after police officers

shoot the suspect. police are looking for a second suspect. it was a rough day on wall street. let's take a look at the closing numbers, the dow closed down 275 points today. the s & p is off 32 and the nasdaq down 90. alexus christoforous reports. >> reporter: a dismal report pushed stocks on the negative for the year. less than half the number expected of jobs were added. the unemployment rate rose for the first time this year from 8.1% to 8.2%. fewer jobs were created in march and april than first thought. >> we have to see where our economy is at this point and where we go from here. this is very troubling i think for americans. >> reporter: the dow dropped 2.7 points as people turned to

gold and bonds. it's not just about jobs, concerns about a slow down in china and europe's the áf slow going debt crisis has slowed stocks for the year. some investors are skeptical. >> the band aids we've been putting on are obviously not working. >> reporter: megan vahn is one of the millions who can't find work. she's been on 50 interviewing since losing her job at the a hedge funds last year. so she's decided to change careers and start her own business. >> what i've had to end up doing is you can't find the job, create your own job. >> reporter: vohn has had to adjust to the grim economic reality. on wall street, alexis christoforous, wjz news. >> and construction saw the biggest drop 28,000 construction jobs were cut in may, manufacturing added 12,000 jobs. if you're waiting for someone to get home from work, let's check on the roads with

christie bresland. we have had some traffic problems today, christie including a bad fire. >> absolutely kai, unfortunately that situation on northbound 95 is still occurring. let's now take a look live. that is the southbound camera but the vehicle fire is on the north direction right past white marsh. the delay is very slow. you best bet would be to avoid all of this. take route 40 or even get on bell air road instead. as far as the beltway goes, if you're traveling on the topside of the outer loop we're looking at one hour, that's from providence road, heavy from park heights avenue over to bell air road. 25 minutes from the vw parkway to security boulevard. if you are traveling on the harrisburg expressway, stop and go in that northbound direction. that's from tamonium road to

belfast. traffic coulding at -- crawling at 25 miles per hour. just crawling along in the eastbound direction as you make your way down the beltway. as you can see only one lane is getting by. if you are headed in that direction take a detour instead. this traffic report is brought to you by your baltimore hyundai dealer. celebrating the hyundai elantra. as if you needed anything else to think about. today marks the start of hurricane season. in baltimore leaders are getting ready. mayor stephanie blake is asking people to create a family evacuation plan, clear outdoor storm drains and make a kit in case you cannot leave your house during a storm.

>> in that preparedness kit you should have hour for everyone for 72 hours, portable radio, flashlight with extra batteries. >> reporter: now you should also have a three day supply of nonparishable food items. last summer hurricane irene and remnants of hurricane lee caused damage. having that kit today could be helpful to some people. >> we've already had two named storms in may which is very unusual. >> it's going to be a bumpy ride. >> most of the activity is in september. >> these storms today have already caused some power outages. we just got an update from bge. there's about 12,000 customers without power as these storms move through the region. there could be more, but it's not over yet. >> not quite yet. this is before the storms hit. obviously if you had rain you're in the 60s. it's kind of a mute point now.

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you're watching wjz's first warning weather continuing coverage. we've had an active day across the state of maryland weather wise to say the least. it's not real little over just yet. let's go back to bob turk to find out what's happening. >> the entire region east of the mountains. some of it has calmed down, we've had storms earlier so the atmosphere has stabilized a little bit. right now in the city that's just moved through the baltimore region and it's off to the north and northeast of our area. and it continues to move off in that general direction up toward harford county. look at that just south of baltimore, there is another batch of shower and thunderstorms activity that is going to be moving toward the region. so we'll be watching over the next few hours another batch of rain moving into the area. so it's going to be a wet

night, stormy night in some areas. we could easily see 2-feet of rain this evening. take a look at temps. these are our reported temps. temperatures back in the 60s. other wise 60s, low to mid-70s even some low 80s. 66 they had a lot of rain in westminster. where it hasn't rained temperatures low 80s. now we see what's been going on. we had these the winds, some turning of the winds in those clouds and that's why you had rotation in some of those clouds we've been watching all afternoon. a tropical system for those folks for us the most important thing we're watching really is this front out to the west. which still has to move across the region. a lot of stuff to the north. this is what's breaking up this afternoon. there's a squall line forming

in west virginia. now the only hope i have is, because we've had these storms kind of stabilizing the atmosphere it's possible that when this line getting to us later on tonight may not be quite as strong as was earlier. just getting a new report in. okay let's see what we have here. tornado warning for north eastern pg county. and central maryland southeast maryland county. that's a new one just issued. this one going to include areas of odenton area and millage road, seventh and grass lake. that's in effect moving southeast at 38 miles per hour. there's the cell right through there. kind of broken up, it's kind of hard to see it. it's moving toward that general area. once again another tornado warning. take shelter in that area. crofton area you're talking howard county region. ford mead, millersville, seven, that area down there.

northeast of the dc region. that cell had some pretty pretty strong activity with it. let's take a look if we can on the one cell over the baltimore area. all this front is moving to the region. you see approaching it from the west. there it goes through later tonight. things will begin to clear out. and we have cooler weather on tap for tomorrow but south of baltimore that's where this cell is located right now. let's take a look at that. okay, there we go. it's kind of broken up but this is, this is the one we're looking at. southwest of buoy. let's go in and take a closer look. this one has been moving through the college park area. buoy. let's see if there's any rotation with that particular cell. you can see some of those colors and looks like as we head toward the buoy area, not much rotation, but i guess there's enough to warrant that warning. buoy, not a whole lot. just a little shower activity

in that area. once again officially south eastern howard county. a little bit of western pa county and eastern the queen anne county. millersville, southern and south gate this is until 7:00 tonight. sometimes tornadoes are wrapped in rain and you can't see the funnel cloud because of the e rain coming down so hard. so even though we're not seeing any funnel clouds at this time, with these storms being so strong, sometimes they're hidden but please if you're in the region, the generation, southwest of the glen burney area we're talking the fort mead area not too far from the baltimore region. take shelter now at least for the next 25, 30 minutes until that cell can move through your region. let's take a look again at your forecast. we do expect a nicer day to come in. we see cooler temps, a nice breeze moving through the region. looks like a pretty good region. small craft advisory, yes for

tonight. and eventually a little bit more for tomorrow. 49 is the bay temp. severe storms still possible. tomorrow much nicer day. cooler, less humid, high of 77. going down to the beach, shower activity through tonight and into tomorrow morning. 74, 76 on sunday. looks like a pretty good weekend. the only problem is the water is cold, the water is only 65 degrees at ocean city. >> small craft advisory, i would say don't go in the water. yo,,,,,,

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it's 5:30, 78 degrees and stormy. thank you for staying with eyewitness news. tornado watches and warnings are in effect around maryland. let's go back to bob turk tracking rain. >> a new tornado warning issued until 6:00 for fredricks county. up toward there you see it just between fredricks county in effect until 6:00 p.m. tonight. let's track that one as it heads, the fredrick area has seen a lot of rain. let's look into this particular storm and see which way it's moving exactly, up to 11,500,

not even that high a storm, but it's moving in fredrick county. eastern fredrick county and it's already had reports of flooding in a lot of those regions, so once again if you're in the fredrick area between walkersville, fredrick and even as far north as fairmont. this storm is moving in that direction. other storms moving in all directions. one southeast, that one an active tornado warning. the other is in parts of howard county between pg county. this one right here, that has prompted a tornado warning around buoy area. east of college park. southeast of laurel moving right up 29 and 95. another tornado warning there in effect until 6:00 tonight. so lots of activity as we mentioned and it look like a lot of the region will see at least some portion of severe weather tonight and yet another front to the west which will create more activity later on tonight. so we're not quite done with

the storms. still might have a chance of severe weather later on this evening. probably after 9:00 to about midnight tonight, denise. >> thank you, bob. as you heard howard county has had a lot of tornado warning throughout the county. a lot of bad weather moving through there. our photo journalist eric hail joins us. that's where he lives. and you are saying that students were okay. >> they had to hunker down in a classroom as the storms were going through. i talked to four kids, they were all sisters and brother, and three of them were fine, they were talking to me -- but one was still visibly care from the incident. >> what scared them, in other words was it hail, lightning, winds? >> they described wind and they

could just hear the rain. and just really loud. and i guess up until that they had moved the kids to a safe area. i guess the who event compared them. a lot of trees down in the area. probably eight trees that were ripped apart. right now i'm on greenville road and a very large tree broke a power line. so as i'm driving on green land and green park, you can see lots of debris. lots of tree branches on the road. >> bob just showed us on radar right over howard county there's a lot of activity. so have you seen any hail. we've been hearing reports that these storms could bring with them hail and lightning, not to mention 60-mile an hour winds. have you seen any hail?

>> i haven't seen any hail, the rain is starting to pick up a little bit right now. but i have heard reports of hail. and i hasn't seen any rain, just very dark clouds. >> all right, well, the people who are listening to you eric are looking at video from right here on television hill the back area there. where it is raining very hard. but we appreciate eric talking to us while he's driving which is not always safe but he's a very good driver and he'll be okay. but he's in howard county where you heard there were a lot of kids kept in schools, some of them were frightened by what they experienced as they waited for these storms to pass through. kai. >> we have major traffic delays around the region tonight. let's check in with christie berslin at traffic control. >> hi, kai, hi everyone. first let's update you on the situation on northbound i95. we had the earlier vehicle fire that we did catch a lot of good footage of as you can see. some of the lanes are still blocked off in that north direction. traffic still getting by but

it's moving off pretty slowly off into a delay. to avoid any of that we are still suggesting you take polaski highway or bell air road. if you are traveling around the bellway we're still looking at a solid how are on the outer look to baltimore national park. the upper loop a lot of congestion in that region. it goes over to the northeast side. again on the inner loop, 25 minutes in that direction from the vw parkway to security boulevard. 70 westbound a lot of trouble in that direction from 25 to marysville road. not an easy drive. heading toward the beltway either. the harrisburg expressway, bumper to bumper. we also had those accidents to watch out for. north hillton at baltimore, also edminson avenue at cooks lane. let's now go back and take another live look at the situation there on 95.

in that northbound direction, we do still have some medical equipment on the sidewalks but at least traffic is getting by. we will continue to bring you up to day and you can always log on to wj z.com for the latest details. and stay with wjz.com for the latest updates, log on to wjz.com. we're going to leave the weather for just a few moments to give you other news. the man who shot and killed trayvon martin is going back to jail. today a florida judge revoked george zimmerman's bond. teresa garcia reports with more on this decision. >> reporter: george zimmerman has 48 hours to surrender to the seminole county sheriff's office. at issue how much money he had at the time of his bond. >> let his wife testify falsely before the court when he knew

well in advance of that hearing the amounts of money in controversy. >> reporter: the judge sited with the prosecutor who zimmerman and his wife misled the judge over their finances. his client had raised more than $200,000 through a website most of that was available at the time of the hearing. >> i do think that the zimmerman family was acting with what they thought they had. i don't think they believed they had preaccess to that money. >> reporter: o' mara says he hopes this is a temporary set back for his client. zimmerman claims self-defense in the death of trayvon martin. the attorney for trayvon martin's parents say the judge's ruling is significant. >> this credibility is the most important thing in this entire case. remember it is only george

zimmerman's testimony who says that trayvon martin attacked him. >> reporter: zimmerman should have an opportunity to explain himself to the court at another bond hearing. teresa garcia, wjz eyewitness news. >> zimmerman's lawyer said on the website today that he does not expect the case to be ready for trial until next year. several jurors in the john edwards corruption trial are speaking out after a mistrial is declared. most jurors thought the prosecution star young was not credible. they also thought the candidate never received any money to hide his pregnant mistress. edwards admits his actions were sinful but not illegal. wjz is live, political reporter pat warren has more on the problems and possibilities. >> reporter: that's right the problems are a little more complicated that than the possibilities. the big possibility is a lot

more revenue for the state that could offset future tax increases. maryland live opens in anne arundel county june 6th. the debut of the biggest slots casino. >> we have 1,600 permanent employees here. >> reporter: yet still a week from the opening and it appear it is game is changing. >> i think it's not fair. >> reporter: the game changers are on this gambling commission appointed by the governor and including members of the house and senate to determine whether maryland needs to rework its plan. include table games and reduce the percentage of the state's take. >> and if appropriate, develop consensus legislation for consideration at a special session of the general assembly in july. >> that plan for a special session has been confirmed by the senator to stop a gaming issue clog the works on the last day of the regular legislation session.

changing now which creates hurtful competition for maryland law. cesar's entertainment which is applying for the legislation sees an advantage. >> we're prepared to support the addition of another license if we're allowed to provide table games at a more moderate tax rate. this has to be a winner if the city of baltimore. >> reporter: they don't have a lot of time to consider it, they have to report back to the governor by june 20th. i'm pat warren, back to you. as of now only two of the five designated slot locations are in operation. tornado watches and warnings remain in effect around maryland. let's check in with bob turk tracking radar. >> the active tornado warning is in fredrick county right now between walkersville, that portions of fredrick county, that cell moving up to the north around 25 miles per hour. other stronger storms around the baltimore region, one

moving through a short time ago. from buoy, that's also prompted a tornado warning in effect for the next 10, 12 minutes between lowell, buoy although no reports of funnel clouds or tornadoes, but heavy rains yes. we have some reports of tree damage in a few locations as well. one cell moves through baltimore, there's another batch coming in right now that's going to be a rainy, stormy night. right now the only areas of the state that are receiving really not much in annapolis, just lighter rain. when you go west of the fredrick area, you see that new line of storms developing that is closer to the front. so later tonight, probably after 8:00 or 9:00 there's another risk of more severe thunderstorms activity. at least at this point if it holds together, sometime between 8:00 and midnight we'll see another round of storms perhaps another squall line developing with the actual cold front pushing through. the only good thing is it stabilized through the atmosphere so things may not be

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still a tornado warning set for portions of south eastern howard county, a little bit of west northwest aa county and also northern pg county. the areas under the impact really near crofton moving to the northeast at 25 miles per hour. this is at the 6:00 odington, morrisville, georgetown, and harmington south gate. you're in line for that storm. you can see it right there. oregon hills and it's basically moving to the southwest baltimore. once again, let's look inside that particular cell and see if we see much in the way of rotation. take a look down around 32,

don't see a whole lot and that's good news. don't see a lot of rotation at all. western crofton. don't see much in that rotation. we can both physically see that and it's just not happening. hopefully they'll be canceling this before 6:00. that's moving up to the north, northeast and around 25 miles per hour, as it continues you folks in glen burnie going to get hit with that. that's also going to cover most of the city as it moves up in that general direction. 25miles per hour. so once again still the tornado warning in effect for the next 20 minutes for howard, northern pg county. the rest of the area still lots of activity as you see. all around the state, particularly from baltimore west and baltimore north and

northeast. down the dc area. now that new line of stuff coming down to eastern maryland next concern because that's where the front is located and that's where more storms are forming from cup cumberland to west virginia. it's just a matter of time, there's a break in there. but we may see more activity between 8:00 and mid-night tonight and these also could produce severe thunderstorms across much of the reason. we've already had lots of flood warnings in effect. still in effect for many areas. where we saw the storms earlier this afternoon . right here on tv hill we have reported 1.33- inches. in about 25 minutes and we still have heavy rainfalling even as we speak. so that's why we have a flood warning in effect for the baltimore region as well. baltimore county, baltimore city, some of the streams can be flooding once again. i can't tell you this enough.

if you cross a roadway that has water in it it can take you car away. turn around, don't drown that's the best advice we can give you. so if you're crossing roads that have water in them. six to 10-inches of water can take your car away. we don't want to lose you, please, side on the side of caution just turn around, go a different way. denise. >> all right, turn around don't drown. good add vice. impressive radar there. those storms moved through baltimore county with real force about an hour ago. gigi barnett is joining us live on the phone again. she has more on the conditions and the county right now. she talked to people who experienced at their height, gigi. >> reporter: yeah, i should say we received several different reactions, we had people telling us they didn't know what was going on, they just saw the storm and decided to leave home and go ahead and brave it out. then i talked to some people who said that they waited a little while. but either way they're all saying they're taking it slow

out here, and they really much just want to arrive alive when they get home. let me tell you what i'm seeing. because i reported north of us and we were at the warren road and york road. north of us there was looking toward of course i83 north that the storm looked like it was moving south. and it looks like clear skies to the north but then if you look south it was dark again. well now the rain is starting to pick back up and looks like another cell might be moving through getting much darker out here and now the rain is getting heavier as well. so, drivers saying as i mentioned that just take it slow. one guy said this is weather and weather is weather you have to get out and it's no matter what. but it is dangerous. so of course the caution always remains to be careful. we've seen several lightning strikes, the first one came about 30 minutes ago that's why

we couldn't go live. then it cleared, we saw lightning strikes again and i'm back on the phone with you because it would be a little too dangerous if we tried to go live out here. for now that's what's going on in our area. northern baltimore county, warren road and brook road, denise back to you. >> thank you very much gigi barnett, the photos you were looking at were sent to us from viewers. we were looking at video of what appeared funnel clouds, none of ,,,,,,,,,,

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right now a -- tornado warning remains in effect. bob turk continues to track the storms on doppler radar. bob. >> two storms left, the one we

talked about still in effect for the next 10 minutes there. that's this cell right here. there it is. fort mead area right through the hermins area. around walkersville, up toward ladiesburg. west southwest southern pennsylvania, adams county area over the next 15 to 20 minutes. we had two very active storms and the rest of the region, another one causing a severe storm warning in effect in this area. you see it approaching bell air. that's a strong cell as well. some areas are seeing very heavy activity, other areas getting sunshine which is not a good thing because the sun is just going to help destabilize atmosphere. we have risk of more storms. looks like we'll be tracking these storms throughout much of the region. >> it's going to be a long night. >> it is indeed. >> first warning weather ,,,,,,

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coming up on wjz eyewitness news, wild weather. more storms on doppler radar and a tornado watch still in effect. >> storm damage and power outages throughout the region. >> check in for these and all the breaking news, wjz eyewitness news at 6:00 starts now.

hello everybody i'm denise koch. >> and i'm denise carter. here is what people are talking about tonight. more severe storms in effect. storm after storm throughout the county. and take a look at this, wjz viewer ashley sent us this video, let's see if you can see it. this video of a funnel cloud on the hamstead bypass. there are reports that a funnel cloud did touch down on the county. there are reports of that. with reports have come intense rainfall. take a look at clarksville road, completely washed out